Learning vocabulary is essential for learning any language, but it can be difficult to memorize without resources. Busyteacher.org offers 14,321 printable vocabulary worksheets in several different categories, all of which are great for you to use with your students.
Vocabulary is a key component in helping students with word building. More often than not, students become stuck when speaking about their interests or jobs because they don’t know enough vocabulary to express themselves. Using these worksheets as a resource will help them build sentences as they learn to use the English language with ease. When used as homework assignments, these worksheets will make sure that students continue to use the words learned in the classroom at home, and get the extra practice they need to progress in their learning.
These worksheets can be used in the classroom in many different ways. Role play is one effective way to teach vocabulary: you can place students in a specific scenario and have them use the vocabulary on these worksheets to act out a relevant situation. Another effective way to teach vocabulary is by introducing the vocabulary words in a game setting, such as a matching game, a bingo game, or a team-based game.
The worksheets below come in many different styles. Some include cartoon characters to identify colors, some are simple fill-in worksheets, some are song worksheets, some are quizzes, some are in list form, and you'll also find many other types . This variety gives you a lot of options for creating a dynamic and fun lesson, and your students will appreciate the variety, too.
The worksheets are also grouped into “recommended,” “most popular,” and “recently added” categories – and they're also level-specific, ranging from beginner to advanced. This makes it easy for you to determine whether or not a given worksheet can be used in your lesson. If you're not sure about what a certain worksheet contains, just click on the thumbnail to preview the entire worksheet before downloading it.
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A very funny doctor, patient 'joke' worksheet with adverb or adjective gap fill. It can be used as a reading, or adverb / adjective exercise, or as a fun warmer or cooler. Suitable for teenagers a ...
Shopping boardgame for two or more players to practise vocabulary for shopping, shops and money, food, clothes, pets etc. Also some simple grammar including the verb 'to be' and plurals, and some ...
Reporting a crime. Past simple, past continuous, and questions activity. Reading, speaking, gap fill writing & role play activity cards. The first card is a reading dialogue for partners. The ...
Reported speech powerpoint activity that I created for a class / group activity. It is based on a real life, true crime carried out by a very polite man who robs a petrol station. Each slide shows ...
Step by step instructions with pictures and lyrics to learn 'the skeleton dance'. A fun Halloween song that can also be used to practise body parts. Suitable for all grades. The youtube video lin ...
This worksheet describes the latina pop star Shakira and her involvement in UNICEF as a Goodwill Ambassador. It is designed for the advanced ESL student, whose primary orientation is Hispanic. It ...
This is a reading comprehension/discussion worksheet that is designed to be used with advanced adult ESL students. There are a number of advanced vocabulary words. It describes when the UN was fou ...
An easy elementary worksheet for children between 6 and 8 to practice reading comprehension and the use of"Have got/Has got". First they have to draw people according to each reading taking into a ...
111 riddles and brainteasers for children and adults. Particularly good in an EFL setting. The language is safe for children. I usually start off a lesson with a riddle. It can help with behaviou ...
This is a class survey about food likes and dislikes. Ss have to make questions around the room using the phrase: Do you like__? Ss use the pictures to complete the main structure. Example: A: Do ...
This is a usefull worksheet that helps busy teachers review some adjectives with their children and using these adjectives they can review and describe their family members. The adjectives are abo ...
Collocations are a big challenge for many of us as English learners. That's why I have decided to create tasks dealing with prepositions and collocations in real contexts. The texts I have used ar ...
Worksheet for the little ones. They usually love this type of exercise. They have to find the eleven words which describe colours in the word search box. If they are very young or beginners, pu ...
This 150-word paragraph introduces the custom/tradition of Halloween. There are 12 missing words; learners can choose from the vocabulary on the left. Intermediate-level. With Answer Key. Your ...
"Halloween memory game" is a simple card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on surface and the children have to match pairs of the Halloween words together. It can be used after ...
This worksheets aims at learning basic occupations. Children need to match the pictures and the written words representing the professions. It was based on the book of fourth grade, primary school ...
This is a worksheet which I have pieced together from various internet resources. There is a pre-viewing reading passage, questions to be answered during viewing, post-viewing essay questions, po ...
This worksheet is based on the video which provides a clear explanation for the process of climate change. Ss should answer the questions after watching it, do true-false excercise and summarize t ...
An activity containing all the important personal info vocabulary needed in a hotel, hospital, airport, and so on. First, students have to get acquainted with twelve vocabulary items (first name, ...
Shape Flashcards / Pictionary for young students. You can hand out this worksheet as a Pictionary / Vocabulary List. Also students can circle the correct answer of the shapes. Skills: Shape vocabu ...
human rights:The worksheet deals with the topic of racism. It depicts the hardships faced by black Americans in the past by slave owners. It portrays also their sufferings and struggles to become ...
This worksheet is a simple vocabulary exercise on kitchen utensils. The worksheet is divided into two parts. The first exercise is a word and its definition matching exercise and the second exerci ...
This a WebQuest designed for students who have been taking at least three years of English. I have included only the teacher's page which includes the website where you will be able to find the re ...
This is a worksheet to talk to your students about E-mail. It contains some questions about e-mail, its place in communication and some tips to write an e-mail. The questions can be discussed in p ...
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